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四、(2024·凉山;传统文化)任务型阅读。
阅读下面短文，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有一项为多余选项。
Different countries have different manners about social situations. In Mexico, people shake hands when they meet for the first time. In Brazil, people sometimes kiss. In R.O.K., people usually bow. Do you know Chinese fist-and-palm salute(拱手礼)? It is one of classic greeting manners in China. 1. ________
The occasions for making fist-and-palm salute
For centuries, China has been known as a "Liyi Zhibang". Nowadays, Chinese people usually shake hands when meeting others, but sometimes they also make fist-and-palm salute. 2. ________ People make fist-and-palm salute when they visit someone during the Spring Festival or attend someone's wedding ceremony, birthday party and so on.
The history of fist-and-palm salute
3. ________ It started in West Zhou dynasty. If people met strangers, they would prepare for a fight if necessary, and hands were always ready to hold weapons(武器). Holding hands together pointed to themselves was a meaning of expressing kindness. Later it became one of traditional Chinese manners when meeting each other.
4. ________
How do you make fist-and-palm salute properly? First, stand at attention. Then, if you are a man, right-hand half-fist, and then left-hand hold the right-hand in front of your chest. For a woman, left-hand half-fist, then right-hand put the left-hand on the top. Next, watch each other, raise both hands to brow(额头) and bend down. 5. ________ Also, you could say some lucky greeting words to each other.
A. Now let's learn more about it.
B. The way to make fist-and-palm salute
C. When and where do people use it?
D. It is often widely used among Western countries.
E. Finally, shake hands towards each other for three times.
F. Fist-and-palm salute has a history of more than 3,000 years.

答案： 四、1~5. ACFBE